Mildred Pearl Langer Weinberg, Scranton’s Hill Section, Webster Towers and Elan Gardens, Clarks Summit died peacefully surrounded by loving family at the Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab in Scranton on February 10, 2026.  She was the widow of David Israel Weinberg z”l to whom she was married for 67 wonderful years.

Born in Far Rockaway, NY, Millie was the daughter of the late Sadie (Schoenbrun) and Aaron Langer.  She was a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and also a proud graduate of Hunter College where she majored in Spanish and Portuguese. 

She met her husband, David Weinberg of Scranton, while spending summer vacations with her aunt and uncle, Hannah (Langer) and Charles Letztic, in Carbondale and Crystal Lake, PA. 

After working hard raising a family of 4 children, she capitalized on her Hunter education and became a Spanish teacher in the Mid Valley School District.  Upon her retirement from teaching, she transitioned to a key staff position at the Scranton Jewish Community Center for 15 years as Senior Adult Club Advisor and Supervisor of the Congregate Meals Program.  In her position at the JCC, and working with the able assistance of Millie Gritz and others, she was particularly known for the enjoyable and educational trips she arranged for her seniors throughout the Northeast United States and Florida.  The JCC Senior Program grew by leaps and bounds under her leadership.

While working at the JCC, she and Dave sold the family homestead on the 900 block of Madison Avenue and moved to Webster Towers.  She especially enjoyed her 21 years living in Webster Towers where she was an active leader of the resident community, and made many wonderful new friends and helped organize and lead literally all community activities. 

Millie and a group of 8 dear friends formed a club in the 1940’s known as The Jolly Nine.  They met weekly for 42 years moving from Canasta to Mahjong some time in the 50’s.  The Club treasury was dedicated to their twice-a-year trips to New York City for dinner and a show where Millie could show off her New York street smarts and mastery of all things Broadway.  Among the members of the Jolly Nine were Ann Binik, Lucille Ginsburg, Eleanor Hyman, Libby Schoenburg, Doris Rapkin, Ceil Levy, Odessa Levine, Sara Morris and Leona Goldstein. In her later years Millie was a Mahjong teacher to many of her friends and acquaintances.

Millie was a member of Temple Israel, its Sisterhood, and member of the Temple Mitzvah Committee.  She was Secretary of the Chatiner Hatikvah Ferein, Life Member of Hadassah, Secretary of the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary, delivered Meals-on-Wheels in Webster Towers for 15 years for Jewish Family Services and was a member of the Senior Adult Club of the JCC before and after serving as its Coordinator.  She was a reading volunteer in the Public School kindergarten.  She was a Board Member of the Jewish Home Auxiliary where she was honored as the Volunteer of the Year (2015).  In 2003 she received the annual Senior Adult Club award of the Jewish Community Center for her many years of service to the Senior Adult Club.

None of this, however, can express how diligently Millie worked throughout her life to create a vibrant, inclusive Scranton Jewish community.  Nothing made her happier than seeing others engaged in the community and enjoying themselves.  Two periods of her life stand out in this regard:  her 15 year tenure at the Scranton Jewish Community Center and her informal, but very real leadership of the Webster Towers community.

While serving as the Senior Adult Club Advisor and Supervisor of the daily Congregate Meals Program, Millie, with her close associate Millie Gritz, went above and beyond what was expected of her in order to provide speakers and travel programs to enrich the lives of the members.  Everyone agreed that there wasn’t a place of interest within 100 miles of Scranton to which she hadn’t organized a trip for her JCC seniors.  Every meticulously planned  trip was instantly oversubscribed and the many adventures coming out of these trips remain a happy highlight of the lives of all those who participated.  None of her supervisors had made planning this huge number of trips a part of her job description.  This was her passion and she achieved success above and beyond even her own high expectations.

Notable among these trips were the annual 2 week trips to Miami Beach, to Woodloch Pines in the Poconos every summer, to her personal all-time favorite, Mohonk Mountain House, to Atlantic City, to every regional dinner theater, to the Raleigh Hotel in the Catskills twice a year, and to Niagara Falls.

The same was true of the variety and frequency of the speakers she arranged for the JCC Senior lunch program.  Millie scoured the local paper about a person whose job or hobby she thought might be relevant to her Seniors and would be on the phone or traveling to visit the person to persuade them to speak at the lunch program.  She rarely failed to convince.

When Millie moved into Webster Towers in 1997, she was delighted to discover a whole new world of friendship and community at her fingertips – all included in the rent!  She quickly became known to residents and staff as “the Mayor of Webster Towers”, a title she relished.

The family wishes also to express our appreciation to the staff, management, and Board of Elan Gardens.  Millie moved into her apartment at Elan Gardens in Clarks Summit in March 2019.  She made many new friends in Elan Gardens among both staff and residents, helped organize and took part in all of the activities offered, and spoke highly of the caring staff and the professionally run facility.  We are proud of the many contributions she made to the Elan Gardens community and grateful to the wonderful care she received from the expert and always-caring staff, especially during the Covid pandemic.

Lastly, the family would like to thank the staff and management of Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab of Scranton led by Melissa Bednarz, Director of Human Services, for their professional care of our mother in her final days. Also critical was the professional and compassionate care she received from her aides, Jadwiga Krajewski and Renee Sheluga and the expert medical care from Dr. Darlene Dunay.

Surviving are her 4 children: three sons:  Steven & wife Dorna, East Brunswick, NJ, Neil and wife Arlene, Scranton, Alan and wife Marcy, The Villages, FL, and a daughter, Barbara Nivert and husband Louis, Clarks Green, 10 grandchildren (Abigail Weinberg and her husband Rabbi Nathan Martin of Philadelphia, Beth Jaeger Skigen and her husband Geoff Skigen of San Francisco, Adam Silverman and his wife Orli Bein of Oakland, CA, Rabbi Ezra Weinberg and his partner Healy Smith of Philadelphia, Aaron Nivert and his wife Stacy of Scranton, Brian Weinberg and his wife Tamar of New Rochelle, NY, Rebecca Nivert Tschampel and her husband Tom of Clarks Summit, Stacy Weinberg Rubin and her husband David of South Bend, IN, Elena Weinberg, Boston and Lita Weinberg, Boston.  Grandma Millie is also survived by 20 great grandchildren: Hadassah and Yehuda Weinmartin, Hana and Zoe Jaeger-Skigen, Gali and Ozi Silverman, Benjamin and Ariel Weinberg, David, Sarah, Alana and Daniel Weinberg, Sruli, Ephraim and Rina Esther Rubin, Jacob, Harry and Amelia Nivert, Eli and Lila Tschampel to all of whom she is an icon, as well as a legion of nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren.  She was predeceased by her brother Arnold Langer, New York and St. Albans, VT.  Millie was the core and the beating heart of this extended family and was adored by all for her kindness, attentiveness, thoughtfulness, honesty and being utterly non-judgemental.

Known to her family and many friends as a loving, caring, highly engaged communitarian leader, Millie was a devoted wife, a doting mother, an engaged grandmother and a venerable great grandmother.  The life lessons she taught all of us in the family will remain a part of our lives forever.

And she will be sorely missed by all in the Scranton-area community and beyond who were lucky enough to have had the opportunity to share their lives with her and to benefit from her leadership.

The funeral will be on Thursday, February 12 at 11:00 AM at the Carlucci-Golden-DeSantis Funeral Home, 318 East Drinker St., Dunmore, with services by Rabbi Daniel Bubnis and Cantor Vladimir Aronzon.

Interment to follow at the Chatiner Plot in the Dalton Jewish Cemetery.

Shiva will be observed at Elan Gardens, 465 Venard Rd.,Clarks Summit PA 18411, Thursday night 7-9 PM, Friday afternoon 2-4 PM, Saturday night 7-9 PM and Sunday thru Tuesday from 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM.  Neil will sit shiva in his home all hours except 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 when he will sit shiva at Elan Gardens.

Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to Scranton Temple Israel, the Scranton Jewish Community Center,to Habonim Dror Camp Galil, Ottsville. PA., or to the charity of the donor’s choice.